Dinner Party
2015 · 10m · USA
Directed by Andrew DeYoung
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, theatrical
A dinner party with friends collapses into a two-way ego match, served between courses. John Early and Kate Berlant turn polite hosting into open warfare.
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The scouts
Early and Berlant before everyone caught on — that's the only reason this earns a slot, and it's plenty. Dinner parties are cinema's last reliable cage match.
Early and Berlant turn polite hosting into open warfare — DeYoung knows to step back and let the performance comedy be the table manners. Chamber piece for the Search Party generation, exactly.
John Early and Kate Berlant turning polite hosting into a two-way ego match — performance comedy where every line is a passive-aggressive grenade with a garnish. The cast is the craft proposition.